Ray Kurzweil claims we can engineer human health

February 25, 2009

“Biology,” Kurzweil said, “is suboptimal than what we can build.”

Now that health is an information technology, Kurzweil said, humans are adding an extra three months to their life expectancy every year.

“At some point in the near future, he claimed, “We’ll be adding a year every year to life expectancy, not just for infants, but for people already alive.” […]